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I had no intention of posting anything else. I had ignored the question from Dynamite 1 (although unintentionally since I was out of town all day) and when I got home I had a private message from him asking me to respond to his question and preferably to do it on the board and not privately. I...

I'm not charging anything for any damages that were done, to the curtains, to the fire extinguisher. I just want to put it behind us. And, what caused it? He apparently is juvenile. He breached his contract, we called to terminate because of said breach. His wife picked up the phone, screamed at...

Shared experiences are as simple as it gets. I'd like to think more than 50% of the human adult population in this country are smart enough to take any information from any source and delve further to find out what can be believed or not. Hearsay from a group of my peers is gold, and what I...

I have no reason to consult with a lawyer, but thank you for the advice. I also have not asked anyone to join a cause, mine or anyone else's. I have offered to share information privately, which I have the right to do legally and morally, for that matter. And I will share one more time that the...

And that's fine too. Although posts here don't survive if they aren't within a certain boundary, it's still a forum of peers, whether they be fleet owners, companies, or drivers, and having a place to share grievances, kudos, or anything in between is a wonderful thing. We didn't start out as...

And one unbiased fact I can share about a particular driver from Cookeville, TN, is that he urinated on the curtains I provided for our van for his privacy. Unbiased, truthful, no emotion. I am a mother of three, I know the smell of urine when I pick up something wet.... Biased would be, I...

What keeps it valid is keeping emotions out of it. Tell the facts, tell what kind of driver they were for you, keep it honest, keep it simple, no emotions to cloud it. It can't be biased if you just tell the facts about someone the exact way it happened. For example, we had a driver out of...

I didn't say crybaby and such, I said work ethic and work performance... and that's the whole point of having to give references, is to find out a person's work ethic and performance. If they were consistently late to work, you get to know. If they were rude to customers/clients, what have you...

Ohhh, noooo, when you provide a reference, and company A that you'd like to work for contacts company B that you put down as a reference, Company B is allowed to tell about work ethic, performance, etc., anything that's in your personnel file with human resources. There's no confidentiality...

One more quick thing to say on this... I know there are promises made and promises broken. However, I'm not one of those that make promises, nor guarantees. I show them the actual spreadsheets that our vans generate (miles run, pay to driver, pay to me even--I share it all). I want my drivers to...

I'm not really fighting any particular battle at this point. This is because I can't be the only fleet owner (albeit small) out here in this industry who has to try to wade through these drivers and decide who to trust. What I recently dealt with was just the straw... this has been an ongoing...

Darn, first I'm a buddy, and now a brother. LOL :) I'm a female which maybe isn't seen a whole lot in this industry as a fleet owner, although I'm not sure what the actual numbers might be. But off point I got.... I mean, we have DAC for those who hold CDLs (of which I am trying my darnedest to...

Oh, I agree with this too. I think there should be reports for owners and drivers, absolutely. Sharing is a two-way street. I am proud of my business and if I had a driver that was unhappy with something I had done or failed to do that they thought I should have, by all means, share it. Equal...

Here's a diplomatic way of doing things. If anyone would like to know of the drivers who have posted on the free classifieds on this site looking for work who have ended up being worthless, or no-shows, or crybabies, please private message me. Especially if you have a driver out of Tennessee...

It may be your humble opinion, but it's the smartest post that's been made in this whole thread (including mine). I agree wholeheartedly. One man's poison is another man's tea. And, just to make a quick response to a lot of other posts/threads, my name is Dani, not Lisa, and posting or...

Let me just say this and I'll let you all get back to your little hen party. My decision to once again lurk has nothing to do with not having thick skin, it's more that my skin is too thick and with all that's been said, it's better for me to just shut up. You know, if you can't say anything...

You know, you all turn even a simple question that is asked into a free for all. I'm glad I have a lot stronger personality than most people in this world, because some of you are the most negative people I have ever met, and I thought my own family had that prize. You take even a simple...

I'm not naive by any means. I wouldn't say it unless I knew it to be true. Most of the times, they also call him, especially once the load has been picked up and it's time to get it to it's place of delivery, and they've always backed it up that they specifically asked for him. Yes, I have a lot...

You don't know where Gilbertsville is at, do you? :) I am in Marshall right on the lake. I'm only about 25 minutes from you.

Since I seem to have been doing a lot of defending of myself right off the bat, let me take a different tactic and learn something new while it's on my mind. Normally when a question like this arises in my mind, I would just ask my boyfriend/co-owner but he's sleeping off his busy last four...